Changes to the TV Guide - October 2024

[KevNewMedia]

Keep up with the latest changes to the Sky TV Guide on Sky+, Sky Q and Sky Glass/Stream.

This list is updated weekly for the week ahead, but may still change.

Tuesday 1st October 2024

• Ultimate Action (Satellite 307/851 - Sky Glass/Stream 307) renames to  Sky Action / Sky Action HD (reverting from a temporary change)
• ​Sky Sci-Fi & Horror (Satellite 311 - Glass/Stream 311) renames to Sky Halloween/Halloween HD (temporary change).
• ​Sky Greats (Satellite 304 - Sky Glass/Stream 304) swaps with Sky Halloween (Satellite 311 - Sky Glass/Stream 311).
• ​Movies24 (Satellite 312 - Glass/Stream 313) renames to Christmas24 (temporary change).
• ​Movies24+ (Satellite 315 - Glass/Stream 314) renames to Christmas24+ (Temporary change).

Thursday 3rd October 2024

• ITV1 London SD closes and is replaced by ITV1 London HD at 103.
• ITV1 Central West SD closes and is replaced by ITV1 Central West HD at 103.
• ITV1 Granada SD closes and is replaced by ITV1 Granada HD at 103.
• ITV1 Meridian East SD closes and is replaced by ITV1 Meridian East HD at 103.
• ITV2 SD closes and is replaced by ITV2 HD at 118

Saturday 5th October

• ​Sky True Stories (Satellite 302 - Sky Glass/Stream 302) renames to Sky Feel Good/SkyFeelGoodHD (temporary change).

Monday 7th October

• NDTV 24x7 (Satellite 509 - Sky Glass/Stream 511 UK, 509 ROI) rebrands to NDTV World

Tuesday 8th October

• Sky Sports Racing HD ROI launches (Satellite 415/872 - Sky Glass/Stream 411) - replacing the existing UK feeds in ROI

Wednesday 9th October

• PBS America moves from 174 to 173 on satellite only
• Disc.History moves from 177 to 174 on satellite only
• Animal Planet moves from 178 to 175 in NI and in ROI on satellite only
• Court TV moves from 179 to 176 on satellite only
• Channel 7 moves from 181 to 177 on satellite only
• Travel XP moves from 182 to 178 on satellite only
• Ayozat TV moves from 186 to 179 on satellite only
• BBC Scotland HD (ex Scot) moves from 187 to 180 on satellite only
• That's TV 2 moves from 188 to 181 on satellite only
• Rewind TV moves from 190 to 182 on satellite only
• That's TV 3 moves from 191 to 183 on satellite only
• Disc.History+1 moves from 277 to 274 on satellite only
• Animal Plnt+1 (NI / ROI) moves from 278 to 275 on satellite only

Tuesday 15th October

• BLAZE ROI launches (Satellite 164 - Glass/Stream 162) - replacing the existing UK feeds in ROI
• Crime + Investigation ROI launches (Satellite 156/837 - Glass/Stream 138) - replacing the existing UK feeds in ROI
• Sky History ROI launches (Satellite 123/821 - Glass/Stream 116) - replacing the existing UK feeds in ROI

Wednesday 16th October

• Eden (Satellite 166 - Glass/Stream 162 (UK) - 158 (ROI)) and Eden+1 (Satellite 266) rename to U&Eden and U&Eden+1 

Channel is now also free to air     

• That's TV 3 (Satellite 183) renames to That's Christmas

Saturday 19th October

• ​Sky Feel Good (Satellite 302 - Glass/Stream 302) renames to SkyUltSci-Fi / SkyUltScifiHD (temporary change)

Monday 21st October

      

• ​Sky Greats (Satellite 311 - Sky Glass/Stream 311) changes name to SkyBlackTalent/BlackTalentHD (temporary change)

Wednesday 23rd October

• Sky Cinema Black Talent (Satellite 311 - Glass/Stream 311) swaps with Sky Cinema Comedy (Satellite 308 - Glass/Stream 308)

Friday 25th October

      

• ​Sky Ultimate Scifi (Satellite 302 - Sky Glass/Stream 302) renames to  SkyHarryPotter / HarryPotterHD (temporary change)
• SC Family (Satellite 306/850 - Sky Glass/Stream 306)​ renames to Sky Spooky/Sky Spooky HD (temporary change)

Useful links

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Channels available on Sky Go

Sky TV channels on PlayStation and Xbox

Sky Glass Playlist explained 

[Ev71]

I assume ITV1+1 London (SD) is remaining on 973 for the time being?

I find it a handy way to watch the London news from outside London without having to manually tune it.

[liam9898]

christmas channels are getting earlier why cant everything start beginning of november

[nolte]

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@liam9898 wrote:

christmas channels are getting earlier why cant everything start beginning of november

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movies 24 made  the change on the 1st october last year too

https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/What-s-On/Changes-to-the-Sky-TV-guide-October-2023/m-p/4426153#M140061

[ZyloKai]

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@Ev71 wrote:

I assume ITV1+1 London (SD) is remaining on 973 for the time being?

I find it a handy way to watch the London news from outside London without having to manually tune it.

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I would presume so too, as +1 channels for other ITV channels are unaffected

[placeholder1]

Hi, is there any information about Eden going FTA yet? It's been confirmed as happening about a week ago (as well as joining Freeview and Freesat), but I haven't been able to find out when exactly it will happen.

[nolte]

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@placeholder1 wrote:

Hi, is there any information about Eden going FTA yet? It's been confirmed as happening about a week ago (as well as joining Freeview and Freesat), but I haven't been able to find out when exactly it will happen.

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Uktv as the station owner of Eden would be better placed to answer.

But bare in mind if information has not been released to the public domain by the owners, anyone that may know and releases it would be in breach of a confidentiality agreement

[MaccyD221]

hey @KevNewMedia , i'm excited to see what next week changes are.

[Daniel0210]

@MaccyD221 

Post 1 has been updated.

[Super+Anthony]

Seems there are more channels on Q than stream 🥲

[akh48]

It would be nice if Sky actually told customers that channels were going rather that just doing it. 

My recordings tonight disappeared and I could not understand why.  I was on the verge of doing a box reboot and then I thought to come on here first and that I found out why.  I initially searched to find out why 803 had gone, but it only brought up a post from 2022 and then I thought to check this thread. 

I now have to try to figure out what I had programmed going forward for that channel and try and reschule it on the +1 if possible, otherwise it takes 3 or 4 times the space on my box in HD 😔

Is there a reason they keep doing this with no notice to customers?  

Is there a reason they are getting rid of the SD channels, are they trying to push you into paying for HD?

[TimmyBGood]

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@akh48 wrote:

Is there a reason they keep doing this with no notice to customers?  

Is there a reason they are getting rid of the SD channels, are they trying to push you into paying for HD?

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803 was an ITV channel, and so not under the control of Sky.  It was also free-to-air, as is its HD version: the Sky HD add-on is not required for viewing.  There was considerable advance publicity of these changes going back to last year, but it's up to individual channels to decide how to advise their own viewers.

https://rxtvinfo.com/2024/sky-confirms-date-for-itv-satellite-changes/ 

The BBC and ITV have closed down their duplicate SD satellite broadcasting because it was costing them a significant amount of money (from Licence Fee and diminished advertising income respectively) to keep that going for a very small number of legacy SD-only satellite receivers dating back two decades, all of which are now obsolete as they cannot support a modern transmission format.

Realistically, I'm afraid that recording space was not a consideration when these decisions were made.

[Annie+UK]

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@akh48 wrote:

It would be nice if Sky actually told customers that channels were going rather that just doing it. 

My recordings tonight disappeared and I could not understand why.  I was on the verge of doing a box reboot and then I thought to come on here first and that I found out why.  I initially searched to find out why 803 had gone, but it only brought up a post from 2022 and then I thought to check this thread. 

I now have to try to figure out what I had programmed going forward for that channel and try and reschule it on the +1 if possible, otherwise it takes 3 or 4 times the space on my box in HD 😔

Is there a reason they keep doing this with no notice to customers?  

Is there a reason they are getting rid of the SD channels, are they trying to push you into paying for HD?

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The removal of SD channels is mostly down to the broadcasters not wanting to support two types of equipment, plus most mdern systems can handle HD so there is less point duplicating channels as only the older legacy system don't have HD support

The boxes are only meant for timeshifting of programmes and not archiving so the size should not matter if the box is used properly also load of stuff can be accessed via On Demand thus does not need storing long term

If you upgrade to Sky Q then +1 channels are very less  relivant as Sky Q can record many channels at one time and it can stream content using apps thus not requiring disk space usage to store contect

[ZyloKai]

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@akh48 wrote:

It would be nice if Sky actually told customers that channels were going rather that just doing it. 

My recordings tonight disappeared and I could not understand why.  I was on the verge of doing a box reboot and then I thought to come on here first and that I found out why.  I initially searched to find out why 803 had gone, but it only brought up a post from 2022 and then I thought to check this thread. 

I now have to try to figure out what I had programmed going forward for that channel and try and reschule it on the +1 if possible, otherwise it takes 3 or 4 times the space on my box in HD 😔

Is there a reason they keep doing this with no notice to customers?  

Is there a reason they are getting rid of the SD channels, are they trying to push you into paying for HD?

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Just an FYI, Sky don't need to announce changes. They do it because they want to and there is seemingly a need for it. 

Look at Freesat, last Tuesday (1 October 2024), changes were made to some channels, and Freesat only announced them on X after it was done. 

Regarding "I now have to try to figure out what I had programmed going forward for that channel and try and [reschedule] it on the +1 if possible, otherwise it takes 3 or 4 times the space on my box in HD". 

Why are you concerned about space on your Sky device? Once it's full, the oldest content gets erased. And if you want to keep something and protect it from being deleted, there is a "Keep" option. Or just watch it on ITVX on your Sky device? 

Also, from my own personal view, SD TV is pretty much obsolete now, as well as time shift channels.  Trying to watch an SD channel on a HDTV or 4KTV just makes it look awful and pixelated.

The reason why providers are removing SD channels is because only about 1% of the UK's population don't have access to HDTV and it's just not profitable. 

Also Sky are putting their SD channels on satellite frequencies that use DVB-S2, which is used on Sky+HD and Sky Q receivers, and other HD receivers. So older Sky+ and Sky Digiboxes will soon lose the majority of channels, if they haven't already.  

Why? I would suspect Sky don't want to offer support for older boxes long term any more, or it could be due to cost-saving issues.

[placeholder1]

Looks like Eden has already became FTA today, as its encryption has most definitely been removed allowing me to watch the channel without a subscription or a viewing card inserted. How come there is STILL no info about this in this post?